Brent Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Brent, Florida: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Brent: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Brent spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 145 hours, about 6.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% less time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 6.6 minutes.

Brent holds about 0.1% of Florida's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Brent would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,795 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Brent	17.4 min	34.7 min	145 hrs/yr	$4,488	4,317
Florida	24.0 min	47.9 min	200 hrs/yr	$6,189	3,068
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Brent Commute Map

On average, it takes 17.4 minutes to get to work in Brent. That's 22% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 19.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Brent

Walking is unusually common in Brent: 7.8 times more than the Florida average (10.8% vs 1.4%).

Brent stands out for active commuting: 11.2% of workers walk or bike to work, 6.0 times the Florida average of 1.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Brent, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Brent get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	75.6%	4.9%	15.9%	0.6%	1.3%	0.2%	1.3%	0.2%
2010	75.3%	6.5%	14.1%	0.3%	2.4%	0.0%	1.3%	0.1%
2011	71.8%	9.0%	14.6%	0.3%	3.0%	0.1%	0.9%	0.2%
2012	72.8%	11.4%	11.8%	0.3%	2.9%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%
2013	75.2%	13.9%	6.3%	0.4%	3.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%
2014	77.8%	14.8%	3.8%	0.5%	2.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2015	78.7%	15.0%	3.5%	0.3%	2.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2016	78.6%	15.8%	2.7%	0.5%	1.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2017	79.6%	15.6%	2.4%	0.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2018	77.9%	18.5%	1.9%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	76.7%	18.2%	3.2%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	78.4%	16.4%	3.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	77.2%	14.9%	6.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2022	68.3%	22.0%	7.6%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%
2023	67.0%	21.1%	9.5%	0.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%
2024	67.7%	19.0%	10.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2017 at 79.6% and lowest in 2023 at 67.0%. Overall it fell from 75.6% in 2009 to 67.7% in 2024, down 7.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Brent: its share of workers rose from 4.9% in 2009 to 19.0% in 2024, up 14.1 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 15.9% to 10.8% of workers (down 5.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 22.0% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 19.0%.

Commute Start Times in Brent

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Brent?

The bars show when commuters in Brent leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Florida for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		7.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.0%

Brent Florida Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Brent is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 17.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Florida: 45.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.8%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Brent, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Brent Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Brent next to Florida and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Brent	Florida	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:34 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:36 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:37 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:39 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:34 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Brent were on the road by 7:34 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). That goes against the trend across Florida, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Brent now leave 4 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Brent has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Brent's commute time compare?

Metric	Brent	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.4 min	24.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	19.0%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	10.8%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Brent is 17.4 minutes, shorter than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 10.8% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Brent, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Brent, FL is typical in size for this group, 21,878 residents against a local median of 22,384, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Where Brent, FL breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 66% above the local median of 11.5% at 19.0%.

The cities themselves spread 8.2% on work from home, so Brent, FL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Brent, FL has the highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Brent, FL	21,878	17.4 min #1/5	19.0% #1/5	7:34 AM #4/5
West Pensacola, FL	20,455	20.7 min	9.2%	7:25 AM
Ensley, FL	21,380	18.8 min	13.7%	7:32 AM
Bellview, FL	23,388	20.5 min	8.0%	7:23 AM
Pensacola, FL	53,225	17.7 min	16.2%	7:43 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Brent, Florida.

Is living in Brent, Florida good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 145 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,488 at a typical national wage. That's 27% less than the typical Florida commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Brent, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Brent, Florida. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.